Career
He was employed at Stavanger Conservatory, one of the predecessor institutions to the University of Stavanger, in 1979. In 1988, he was promoted to associate professor He was the first to obtain the Doctor Philosophical
(Habilitation) degree at the University of Stavanger in 2006, with his study on Edvard Grieg"s Opus 5 Number 3, Jeg elsker Dig.